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Mentorship practice has been part of the human experience since the Golden Age of Greece. Engaging with a mentor as a way to learn and achieve one's full potential is an ancient and respected practice. Getting the Most out of your Mentoring Relationships overviews and gives perspectives on a variety of topics and issues relating to being mentored in the diverse fields encompassed by science, technology,...
Active Assessment describes an innovative approach to the assessment of scientific inquiry. The approach is termed active assessment and is based on the idea that scientist-educators can create authentic assessments that enhance engagement in the educational process and provide meaningful assessment data on student learning. This book deals with a specific educational context – the in-laboratory,...
Mentoring has always been an important factor in life and particularly in academia. In fact, making choices about educational pursuits and subsequent careers without input from mentors can prove disastrous. Fortunately many individuals have "natural" mentors and for them these choices are greatly facilitated. Others are not privileged with natural mentors and as such often struggle with...
This book is structured to provide overviews and perspectives on a variety of topics and issues relating to being mentored in the diverse fields encompassed by science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). It is not meant to be read cover to cover, but rather to serve as a handbook in times of need when a few moments of reflection and perspective would be highly useful. Some will find...
In today’s scientific enterprise, one must always be expanding one’s knowledge set and skill base to remain competitive. Coupled with the extremely long training periods required to obtain many specialized scientific jobs, ‘mentoring’ has become almost a marketing buzzword to describe benefits implicit in professional organization memberships, graduate programs, and workplace environments. However,...
The most important conversation you will ever have is the one you have with yourself. – Anonymous Because none of us will have a perfect pathway to our career or to how that career will mesh seamlessly into our lives, we can learn and grow from the perspectives of others. A necessary first step to fruitful mentoring relationships is introspection that leads to better knowledge and understanding of...
A mentor should not have direct control over your advancement in your organization—the relationship should be ‘power neutral.’ Karen Houseknecht There are a number of elements to a successful mentor–protégé relationship. Each element is a reflection of the temperament, interests, experience, and perspectives of the individuals involved. Not all encounters at all times with a mentor will be uniformly...
If you had a positive experience, go find someone else to bring up the pipeline. Patrice Yarbough The numbers of women and under-represented minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines have greatly improved over the past several decades, but institutional efforts to recruit, train, retain, and promote their participation in these fields are still inadequate....
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